dhumpie
29-11-2006, 08:21 AM
Hey Guys,
I chanced upon this great little grab and go. Harks back to the early 80's and I think it is made by Kasai trading in Japan since it has a K watermark. Nice "Celestron" orange and looks very very similar to my firstscope, my Celestron Cometron 40 (down to the focuser). 60mm focal length 415mm fully coated achromatic objective (yup checked it out and surprisingly there is no chromatic abberation and this one has the full 60mm of aperture, no stoppering down like the other scope I got recently...but it has 1 internal baffle right in the middle of the OTA), bakelit tube, nice eye relieve 6x25mm finder (no stoppering down as well although the finder has some false color), 2x barlow (looks to be coated) and a H8mm eyepiece for 52x and 103x (all 0.965" and Japanese made). Comes on a dinky alt az mount although it works well for the scope as it is very light. Looking at getting $70AUD (this includes postage Australia wide).
Let me know what you think....
Darren
I chanced upon this great little grab and go. Harks back to the early 80's and I think it is made by Kasai trading in Japan since it has a K watermark. Nice "Celestron" orange and looks very very similar to my firstscope, my Celestron Cometron 40 (down to the focuser). 60mm focal length 415mm fully coated achromatic objective (yup checked it out and surprisingly there is no chromatic abberation and this one has the full 60mm of aperture, no stoppering down like the other scope I got recently...but it has 1 internal baffle right in the middle of the OTA), bakelit tube, nice eye relieve 6x25mm finder (no stoppering down as well although the finder has some false color), 2x barlow (looks to be coated) and a H8mm eyepiece for 52x and 103x (all 0.965" and Japanese made). Comes on a dinky alt az mount although it works well for the scope as it is very light. Looking at getting $70AUD (this includes postage Australia wide).
Let me know what you think....
Darren